Practicing as a psychiatrist in and around Boston Chaim M. Rosenberg became interested in the abandoned nineteenth-century textile and shoe mills, the people who built them and the people who worked in them. He decided to switch from medicine to history. Among his books are “The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell; 1775-1817,” “Goods for Sale: Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age,” “America at the Fair, Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition,” and “Yankee Colonies Across America.“ His latest book, “John Lowell Jr. and His Institute: The Power of Knowledge,” was published March 11, 2021
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Dr. Robert M. Krim Robert Krim is the founder and leader of the Boston History and Innovation Collaborative, for which he assembled a multi-university research team who worked with hundreds of organizations and businesses studying nearly five hundred innovations that changed the world and were developed in Greater Boston. With that research, he developed it into "Four Centuries of Innovation," a permanent exhibit at Boston Logan International Airport. He has a BA from Harvard and earned a master's in US History, a master's in Economics, and a joint PhD/MBA from Boston College. A professor at Framingham State University, Krim teaches innovation and Massachusetts history. Alan R. Earls Alan R. Earls is a Boston-area writer who has covered high-tech innovation for more than thirty years. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books on innovative enterprises such as Polaroid, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Raytheon, as well as regional histories such as Route 128 and the Birth of the Age of High Tech. He was guest curator for the museum’s 2006 Widgets of Route 128 exhibit. He is also an occasional tinkerer and a licensed ham radio operator
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Kate Viens is the Director of Education at the Charles River Museum. Kate received her PhD from Boston University in American and New England Studies in 2020.
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Author and science Journalist Laura Spinney and moderator, Udodiri R. Okwandu, Presidential Scholar, Harvard University.
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Barbara Abrams, PhD., Suffolk University, Mira Morgenstern, PhD, The City College of New York, and Karen Sullivan, PhD, Queens College/CUNY discuss their latest book, Reframing Rousseau’s Lévite d’Ephraïm: The Hebrew Bible, hospitality, and modern identity. The afternoon’s moderator is Jennifer Vanderheyden, PhD., Marquette University.
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Beth Lew-Williams
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Isabel Wilkerson
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Polly Darnell is a former archivist and librarian who for 20 years ran the Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum, which holds such a rich collection of historical records (print, manuscript, and graphic) that Middlebury, Vermont might be the best documented town in New England. She retired from archives work after almost 20 years at the Shelburne Museum up the road from Middlebury. Connecting researchers with sources that helped them tell new stories about the past was her favorite part of the job.
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Patricia Sullivan and Kenneth Mack
John F. Kennedy Library
PANELISTS Eric Gradoia is the Director of Preservation at Historic Deerfield whose primary field of study is 17th-19th century New England vernacular architecture and building materials. He has served as adjunct faculty at Rogers Williams University, sits on the board for the Historic Eastfield Foundation, and is a registered assessor with the American Institute for Conservation. Oliver Gerrish is a Cambridge University-trained architectural historian based in the United Kingdom who specialises in preservation. Oliver is an author and lecturer on English architecture and has led several preservation initiatives with the Georgian Group, Derbyshire Historic Buildings, and Historic Decorations, a group he founded with Lady Caroline Percy. Though a Briton, Oliver’s family ancestry includes one Thomas Gerrish, a Son of Liberty and a participant during Boston’s Destruction of the Tea at the Boston Tea Party! ======================== MODERATED BY: Dorothy Clark is an independent architectural historian who has extensively researched “forgotten histories” and colonial New England buildings. Dorothy is a professor at Boston Architectural College, an editor for Historic New England’s magazine, and sits on the Board of Directors at the Loring-Greenough House.
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